UF Health (formerly known as Shands)

About

LifeCord is a cord blood donation program of LifeSouth
Community Blood Centers. LifeCord was the first public cord bank
established in the Southeastern United States and in June 2013
received the FDA BLA license for cord blood.

LifeCord, located in Gainesville FL, was established in 1997 and since
then has collected more than 38,000 cord blood units and listed more
than 5,800 of them for public use and sent units for transplant to 28
states and 13 countries. LifeCord belongs to the cohort of banks funded
by HRSA to collect racially diverse donations for the national cord
blood inventory.

The medical director of LifeCord is John R. Wingard, M.D.,
director of the Bone Marrow Transplant Program at UF Health. The
management director of LifeCord is Yesi Sevilla. LifeCord uses the
state of the art, fully automated Sepax processing system from Biosafe.
The Sepax processing kit is a sterile, single-use, functionally
closed system, so that the cord blood never comes into contact with
the external environment.